* Some of the meetings in the series that succeeded the IAAF Super Grand Prix

She came fourth in the 800m at the 1993 world championship in Stuttgart, won the Europa Super Cup 800m in 1994, and came third at the 1989 IAAF Grand Prix final behind Ana Quirot of Cuba.

* IAAF Grand Prix Final, an athletics competitions replaced by the IAAF World Athletics Final

* Tim Montgomery of the United States broke the world record in the 100 meter dash at the IAAF Grand Prix Final, running 9. 78 seconds to beat the former record of 9. 79 set by Maurice Greene of the United States in 1999.

Juantorena has also been appointed as a member of the IAAF Council, and has also served as an Athletes ' Commission Chairman and Grand Prix Commission Member.

He won the bronze medal at the 1987 USA Olympic festival, and won medals in several IAAF Grand Prix meetings in Europe.

Yet another area record came at the Rieti IAAF Grand Prix in August: chasing down Tariku Bekele in the 3000 m, he took second place with an American record of 7: 29. 00 – his first sub-7: 30 minute time.

The 2002 season was a career high for Ferguson-McKenzie: she won five gold medals, with victories at the IAAF World Cup and Grand Prix Final, and a 100 m, 200 m and relay gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

It was inaugurated in 2003 to replace the IAAF Grand Prix Final.

The programme of the former IAAF Grand Prix Final competition varied from year to year and the IAAF World Athletics Final introduced a fixed programme of events.

• 5th place at the 2005 IAAF World Athletic Grand Prix Final

After that glorious season, Keter kept running for some seasons and won the IAAF Grand Prix in 3000 m steeplechase in 1997.

On July 11, 2005 at IAAF Grand Prix Zagreb, Zorko announced his retirement from competitive running.

Previously one of the IAAF Grand Prix events, it is now part of the IAAF Diamond League.

She reverted to being out of medal contention at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics and 1995 IAAF Grand Prix Final.

A silver medal at the 1997 IAAF Grand Prix Final brought an end to a successful season.

From 2003 to 2009 the IAAF classified the Zlatá tretra Meeting among IAAF Grand Prix meetings.

She won the triple jump gold at the 1997 Summer Universiade, and closed the year with a fourth place finish at the 1997 IAAF Grand Prix Final.

In 2002 she won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships, finished eighth at the IAAF Grand Prix Final and fourth at the 2002 IAAF World Cup.

Meetings range from elite competitions – such as those in the IAAF Diamond League series – to basic all-comers track meets, inter-sports club meetings and schools events, which form the grassroots of track and field.

The IAAF World Championships in Athletics became a fully professional competition with the introduction of prize money in 1997, and in 1998 the IAAF Golden League — an annual series of major track and field meetings in Europe — provided a higher level of economic incentive in the form of a US $ 1 million jackpot.

In 2010, the series was replaced by the more lucrative IAAF Diamond League, a fourteen-meeting series held in Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East — the first ever worldwide annual series of track and field meetings.

In 2010, the Golden League idea was expanded globally as the IAAF Diamond League series and this now forms the top tier of professional one-day track and field meetings.

Elite level road running series include the World Marathon Majors, the Great Run series, and IAAF Road Race Label Events.

The IAAF Golden League was an annual series of track and field meetings organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations ( IAAF ).

The 2009 Golden League was the last under the Golden League format and it was replaced by a new annual series known as the IAAF Diamond League.

In April 1932, the executive council of the International Amateur Athletics Federation ( IAAF ) suspended Nurmi from international athletics events, pending an investigation into his amateur status by the Finnish Athletics Federation.

The athletics meeting forms the backbone of the modern Summer Olympics, and other leading international meetings include the IAAF World Championships and World Indoor Championships, and athletes with a physical disability compete at the Summer Paralympics and the IPC Athletics World Championships.

Since its foundation in 1912, the international governing body for athletics has been the International Association of Athletics Federations ( IAAF ).

The IAAF World Championships in Athletics is the primary global athletics championships held by IAAF.

The IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics is a biennial athletics championships which features solely indoor track and field events.

Outdoor track and field is the only sport in athletics that does not have a its own distinct global championship which is separate from other types of athletics, although the IAAF Continental Cup ( a quadrennial competition between continental teams ) is composed entirely of outdoor track and field events.

* The executive council of the IAAF suspended Paavo Nurmi from international amateur athletics four months before the Games, pending an investigation into his amateur status.

The International Association of Athletics Federations ( IAAF ) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics.

Beginning in 1982, the IAAF has passed several amendments to its rules allowing athletes to receive compensation for participation in international athletics competitions.

The two most prestigious international track and field competitions are held under the banner of athletics: the athletics competition at the Olympic Games and the IAAF World Championships in Athletics.

The following year saw the establishment of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics — the first ever global competition just for athletics — which, with the Olympics, became one of track and field's most prestigious competitions.

In 1913, the IAAF decided that the Olympic Games would serve as the World Championships for athletics.

The Dream Mile was and is an annual mile race run at the Bislett Stadium, Oslo as part of the Bislett Games, one of the meetings of the IAAF Diamond League athletics competition.

The annual athletics meet Weltklasse Zürich — part of the IAAF Diamond League — takes place at the Letzigrund, as well as frequent open air concerts.

The IAAF conducted their largest ever anti-doping program at an athletics event for the championships, with 705 athletes subjected to a total 884 of tests.

The stadium was also a venue for the 1990 European Championships in athletics and for the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup.

Ferguson graduated from University of Georgia from where she launched her senior athletics career since which she has gained medals at the Summer Olympics, IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games.

In 1997, at an athletics event in Dortmund, Germany, a row occurred between Tsekos and an IAAF doping controller whom he prevented from testing four of his athletes, among them Thanou and Charis Papadias.

* 2006 IAAF World Cup, in athletics